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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community health and mental health services across the north east London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, Essex and Kent and Medway

Read the latest NELFT news, including information on our services, new trust staff, research and development of our services.

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February
2018

NELFT has been pioneering the use of patient representatives at the Trust. One of the patient reps has made a unique transition from not only patient to patient rep, but now she’s become a full-time employee. We spoke to Katie Lidington at NELFT HQ to hear about her extraordinary journey and the positive changes she has implemented - not only for patients and the Trust, but also on her own life.

The Dementia Crisis Support Team (DCST) in Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock, presented a poster at the Dementias 2018 Conference in London. The conference took place on February 9/10 and the DCST were delighted to be recipients of the 'Best Poster' award.

The Cavendish Square Group, the collaboration between London’s 10 NHS mental health services, appointed John Brouder, Chief Executive of NELFT as the new Chair. John takes on the role of Chair from Claire Murdoch, Chief Executive of Central and North West London NHS FT and National Director for Mental Health at NHS England.

The annual Peer-support Open Dialogue national conference takes place on Wednesday 28 February. It will be the fifth event organised by NELFT and takes place at Regent Hall on Oxford Street in central London from 9.30am until 5pm.

The Aubrey Keep Library received national recognition recently when Health Education England reviewed four case studies for their Impact Case Studies Quality Group. The case studies were added to the HEE Impact Case Studies Database, which is a national database of case studies of library impacts.